Short Bio
Dr. Voyles received the B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Purdue
University in 1983, the M.S. in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from
the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University in 1989,
and the Ph.D. in Robotics from the School of Computer Science at
Carnegie Mellon University in 1997. He was at the University of Minnesota as
Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor from 1997 - 2006 and is currently
an Associate Professor
in the Department of Computer Engineering at the University
of Denver. He remains Site Director of the NSF Safety, Security, and Rescue
Research Center at the University of Minnesota.
Dr. Voyles' research interests are in the areas of miniature, constrained
robots; mobile manipulation; multi-robot coordination;
programming by human demonstration; robot-to-robot skill transfer;
skill-based approaches to robot programming; and haptic sensors and
actuators.
Medium Bio
Dr. Voyles received the B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Purdue
University in 1983, the M.S. in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from the
Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University in 1989, and
the Ph.D. in Robotics from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie
Mellon University in 1997. He is currently an Associate Professor in the
Department of Computer Engineering at the University of
Denver and a Senior Member of the IEEE.
He was at the University of Minnesota from
1997 to 2006 and remains Site Director of the
NSF Safety, Security, and Rescue Research Center, an NSF I/UCRC, at the University
of Minnesota.
Dr. Voyles' research interests are in the areas of robotics and artificial
intelligence. Specifically, he is interested in the development of small,
resource-constrained robots and robot teams for urban search and rescue
and surveillance. Dr. Voyles has additional expertise in sensors and
sensor calibration, particularly haptic and force sensors, and real-time
control.
Dr. Voyles' industrial experience includes Dart Controls, IBM Corp.,
Intergrated Systems, Inc., and Avanti Optics. He has also served on the
boards of various start-ups and non-profit groups.
Long Bio
Dr. Voyles received the B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Purdue
University in 1983, the M.S. in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from
the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University in 1989,
and the Ph.D. in Robotics from the School of Computer Science at
Carnegie Mellon University in 1997. He is currently an Associate Professor
in the Department of Computer Engineering at the University
of Denver and a Senior Member of the IEEE.
He was at the University of Minnesota from 1997 to 2006 and remains Site Director of the
NSF Safety, Security, and Rescue Research Center, an NSF I/UCRC, at the University
of Minnesota.
Dr. Voyles' research interests are in the areas of robotics and artificial
intelligence. Specifically, he is interested in the coordination of
teams of robotic agents for common goals where resource constraints
play an important role. One of the primary application domains is the field
of urban search and rescue, for which he has developed the novel
"TerminatorBot." He is also interested in mobile manipulation,
programming robots by human demonstration, agent-to-agent skill
transfer, and MEMS and microassembly. His interests in computer vision
include extracting 3-D models of
objects from a moving camera. Dr. Voyles has additional expertise in
sensors and sensor calibration, particularly haptic and force sensors.
Dr. Voyles' industrial experience includes three years with IBM,
where he was a
manufacturing/test engineer working on robotic automation projects, one
and one-half years with Intergrated Systems, Inc., where he was a
research scientist working on contracted applications of real-time
software, and two years with Avanti Optics developing sub-micron motion
control platforms for advanced photonics manufacturing.
Dr. Voyles has founded one company, Mark V Automation Corp.,
and co-founded another, both to address issues in real-time control
hardware and software. He has also served on the Advisory Boards
of various organizations, both for-profit and non-profit.
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